Bill Text: TX HB1284 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1284 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the review by certain governmental entities of a permit application for a solid waste facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Left pending in committee [HB1284 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1284-Introduced.html

	84R1665 JAM-D

	By: Simmons	H.B. No. 1284



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the review by certain governmental entities of a permit
	application for a solid waste facility.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 361.067, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to
	read as follows:
	(a) If the commission determines that a permit application
	submitted to it is administratively complete, it shall mail a copy
	of the application or a summary of its contents to:
	(1) the mayor and health authority of:
	(A) each [a] municipality in whose territorial
	limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the solid waste facility is
	located; and
	(B) each municipality with a boundary located not
	more than one mile from the facility; and
	(2) the county judge and the health authority of the
	county in which the facility is located.
	(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
	the commission:
	(1) when acting on an application, shall consider
	comments and recommendations submitted by a recipient of
	information under Subsection (a); and
	(2) may deny or amend an application based on comments
	and recommendations submitted by a recipient of information under
	Subsection (a).
	SECTION 2. Section 361.067, Health and Safety Code, as
	amended by this Act, applies only to an application for the
	issuance, amendment, or renewal of a permit pending before the
	Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective
	date of this Act. A permit issued, amended, or renewed before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the
	permit was issued, amended, or renewed, and the former law is
	continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.